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and that King Satānika was married (B C. 570 ) with Mrigavati
One of the seven daughters of King Cétaka of Vaiśâli and also that he had a son named Udayana.
Near Säketapura Nagara, there was a temple of a Yakşa named Surapriya. The Yaksa was very mighty and he possessed great supernatural powers. Every year, the people of the town used to have a painting of the Yakga made by the most compeetent painter of the town, and they used to celebrate their annual festival on a certain day But the Yaksa used to kill, every year the painter who made his likeness.
In case, however, a painting of the Yakşa was not prepared any year, the enraged Yaksa would spread an epidemic of a pestilence in the town. On account of fear of death, the paint. ers gradually began to leave the town and go away to different countries. The king of the town becoming afraid of the danger of a pestilence among the people which may be caused by Yaksa on account of the non-observance of annual festival, thought :-If all the painters will go away from the town and if & painting of the Yaksa will not be prepared, all the people will be killed. He, therefore, stopped the painters from leaving the town, and by mutual agreement, it was decided that the painter, whose name written on a small piece of paper, came out first from a collection of names of all the painters of the town, written on small pieces of paper and placed in a covered jar, should be made to prepare a painting of the Yakşa for the year.
It so happened that after some years, the son of a painter of Kausāmbi went to Säketapura with the object of studying the art of painting there, and having put up at the house of an aged wife of a painter, he formed friendship with the son of an old woman. That year it was the old woman's son's turn to prepare the painting and she was in great distress. She was weeping and lamenting very often. The young painter asked her Mother ! Why do
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